Projects by Year
The Locus+ Archive (incorporating material from the Basement Group and Projects UK) hosted at the University of Sunderland currently has two PhD posts affiliated to it and is the largest archive of time-based work in Europe. It forms a comprehensive historical overview of contemporary art practice from the early '70s to the present, covering artists' projects from a variety of British and international contexts. Here is a snapshot of the projects that have been digitized to date.
1990 Mona Hatoum, Alive and Well
An installation at the very end of the Victoria Tunnel, behind the barred gate. The piece was created from the heating elements of an electric fire which glowed in the dark.
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1990 Chris Burden, The Sailing Destroyer
The Sailing Destroyer was an attempt by the artist to radically modify an existing, but obsolete warship into a sailing vessel.
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1988 Mona Hatoum, Over My Dead Body
A series of commissioned poster works for advertising hoardings on the Tyne & Wear Metro and in Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds, Derry, London, Glasgow and Middlesbrough.
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1987 Richard Wilson, One Piece at a Time
Twelve hundred second-hand car parts were suspended by wires from a platform mounted in the South Tower of the Tyne Bridge. Over a period of five weeks a motorised cutting device cut approximately 40 wires a day, causing the car components to fall to the floor.
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1986 John Kippin, The Strawberry Portraits
A series of portraits of artists photographed by John Kippin upstairs at The Strawberry pub in Newcastle upon Tyne.
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1986 Mona Hatoum, Position: Suspended
A performance lasting the duration of a day in which Hatoum occupied a rudimentary wedge-shaped cage or shack
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1986 Bruce McLean, Good Violence and Physical Manners Pt.I and Pt.II
A two-day performance at the Laing Art Gallery employing telephones, radios and CB radios dealing with notions of interference and interruption.
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1986 John Adams, Intellectual Properties
This six-part fiction is an ironic, stylized discourse on representation, reproduction, production and reality. Formally structured on the concept that sound qualifies image, each segment uses a different anecdotal soundtrack to recontextualize recurring visual material, until the narratives converge in the final sequence.
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1984 Alastair MacLennan, The Touring Exhibitionists
The Touring Exhibitionists was the first project travelling solely under the Projects UK banner. A select group of performance artists toured the country in a coach playing a various venues.
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